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Behavioral flags in electronic health records are designed to to help prevent violence against clinicians, but the flags might also prevent some patients from receiving full care, according to a ...

Pharmacists in England say they are facing "major issues" with large numbers of patients booking appointments for Covid jabs only to find they are no longer eligible. The criteria has been tightened ...

Nearly one-fifth of adult patient encounters in non-psychiatric settings were considered difficult by physicians, a meta-analysis found. The prevalence of difficult encounters was 17% across 10 ...

PITTSBURGH — A patient at a local hospital became unruly Tuesday, attacking staff members. Police say Kevin Flick, 45, of Bridgeville, became agitated after he was discharged from St. Clair Hospital.

In nonpsychiatric settings, primary care physicians consider 17% of their patients as “difficult,” particularly those who have anxiety or depression, according to research published Jan. 12 in Annals ...

Dr. Lamas, a contributing Opinion writer, is a pulmonary and critical care physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. My patient’s wife glared at me from across his bed, where she stood ...

Even if you have a five-star customer service practice, you'll still have patients who are deemed difficult. The difficult patient often upsets the staff, sends negative reverberations throughout the ...

What Do People Affected by Cancer Think About Electronic Health Information Exchange? Results From the 2010 LIVESTRONG Electronic Health Information Exchange Survey and the 2008 Health Information ...